Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-14

| at the nearly $4,000 dying for lack of sur
gical attendance" "No," say the tire,
doctors, standing there tanning their ps
tents, "we have three important case!
here, and we are attending to them, and
when we are not positively busy witt
their wounds, it takes Us all our time tx
keep the flies Of" In this awful battle
OF sin and sorrow, where millions have
fallen on millions, do not let US spend al
our time in taking care Of few people
and when the command comes: "Gc
into the world" say practically: "No
1 cannot go; have here few choice
cases, end I am busy keeping Off the
flies" There are multitudes to-day who
have never had eny Christian worker
LOOK THEM IN THE EYE,
and with earnestness in the sccentuStion.
say, "Comei" or they would long ego
have been in the kingdom. My friends,
religion is either q sham or tremend-
Gus reality. If it be q sham, let US dis
band our churches and Christian associa-
ton. II it be reality, then great popu-
lEtions are on the way to the bar OF God
untitled for the ordeal, and what are we
doing2
In order to reach the multitude of out
siders we must drop all technalities out
of our religion. When we talk to people
about the hypostatic union and French
| EucyClOpedianism, and Erastinianism,
and Complutensianiem, we are as impolitic
and little understood as il physician
should talk to an ordinary patient about
the pericsrdium, and intercoStal muscle,
and scorbutic symptoms. Many OF Us
come out Of the theological seminaries
so loaded up that we take the first ten
| years to show our people how much we
| know, and the next ten years get our peo-
pie to knew as much as we know, and st
the end find that neither Of US know any
thing as we ought to know. Here are
hundreds and thousands fof SHINING,
struggling, and dying people who need
to realize just one thing-that Jesus
Christ came to save them and will save
them now. But We go into a profound
and elaborate definition OF what justifca-
ton is, and sfter all the work there are
not, outside Of the learned professions,
5000 people in the United States who can
tell what justification is. Will read you
the definition:
classification is purely 8 forensic act,
the act 0f o judge sitting in the forum, in
which ts Supreme Ruler and Judge, who
is Gcc0un&ble to none, and who alone
Knows tRemsnner in which the ends of
His uniFAsal government can be best
ebtsinedsreckon that which was done by
thR. substitute in the same manner as il
It hsdsbEEn done by those who believe in
the sua&ftiEfss and not on account of
anythinN doneag them, but purely upon
accounfbf thisezscious method of reCk-
oning. grants then the full remission of
their sjnSSA.
Now, whae7s Justification? l will tell
you what justification is-When sinner
believes
z GOD LETS HIM OFF.
zone sumner, in Connecticut, went to
a3arge factory, and saw over the door
writes the words: "No Admittance."
tentefed and s.w written over the next
deQrs t'No Abundance" OF course 1
eEts9ed. got inside and found 1t pin
taEtory, and they were making pins,
very serviceSble, fine and useful pins. So
tie spirit of exclusiveness mas practically
written over the outside door of many
church: "No Admittance." And if the
stranger enters he finds practically writ
tenpv the second door: "No Admit
pew doors seems written: ''No Admit
sthShSCs mu1lC bl1S lH1nl9lCI GIhuu6 Ill LUS
pulpit, hSmmering out his little niceties
Of belief, pounding out the techni-
celities Of religion, making pins. In the
most practically common sense way, and
laying aside the non essentials and the
bard dsAnitionsof religion, go out on the
God gfveEs mission, telling the people
what they deessand when and how they
can get it.
roroo,-,%;rait,4 5441o otzo,4 -. ,oG -,
been made to save that large class of per-
sons in our midst called skeptics, and he
who goes TO Wofkghere WiIlnot be build
.ing upon another man'ssS foundation.
There is great multitude M them. They
are afraid OF US and our churches, for the
Reason We don't know how - treat them.
One otgsaie class met 9hrist, and hear
sgith 7hat tenderness ana
: PATHos AND BEkuTas
and Success Christ dealt With him; "Thou
.sfslt love the Lord thy God'Swith all thy
sheart, and with all thy soul and With all
thy mind, and with all thy sffengthE This
Is the first commandment, sndsthekeco
is like to this, namely, thou shalt love
thy neighbour IS myself. There is no
other commandment greater than this. 81
And the scribe said to him: ''Well, mas
ter, thohlhas said the truth, for tHere q
one God, and to love sshim with al tie
heart, and all the understanding, IND al
the soul, and ali the strength is mafe
than whole burnt offerings eaS.
sacrifices" And when Jesus saw tksts
he answered disefeetly, he said unto hfh:
"Thou art not f8r from the KingdomDf
God" So skeptic was saved in one
interview. But few Christian people
treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of
taking hold Of him with the gentle hand
OF love, we are apt to take him with the
iron pincers OF ecclesiastiCism.
:. Y0h would not$be 30 rough on that
nasndt you knew 81 Whet process he had
loS6 his faith Id Chriatianity. have
kHown men skeptical ffom me fact that
sShey had grown up in HOUSES where re-
ligion was overdones Sunday was the
most awful day Of the Neek. They had
religion driven into item with trip
hammer. They wee surfeited with
prayer meetings. They were stuffed and
choked with catechisms. They were often
told they were the worst boys the parents
ever knew, because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read Banyan's PilgrimH
Progress. Whenever father and mother
talked of religion they drew down the
corners of their mouths and rolled up
their eyes. II any one thing will send
boy or girl &c perdition sooner than an
'9sAes Ehat is it. II l had had such
faTfier and mother 1 fear l should have
been so infdel.
Others were trippedsAs OF skepticism
from being grievoyszy wfenged by some
man who professsd to Ee Christian.
13Aev hsd q naTlfier iIIsshusiuess sryho